Reservoir Dogs
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This production, which has gone down in history as the moment Quentin Tarantino stepped into cinema, is not just a robbery film; it is a tight-knit thriller experience based on trust, betrayal and identity. the film, which was realized in 1992 with a very small budget, has become one of the reference points of crime cinema since the day it was watched and presented one of the most striking examples of how a director is born. The story begins immediately after a jewelry robbery. Bloody, chaotic and terrified. The audience does not know exactly what is happening; it only feels that something is going terribly wrong. This feeling never stops until the end of the movie. A gang of men who don't know each other, known only by their code names, discovers in the most painful way how fragile a foundation trust can be built on. Once the suspicion of an informant among them takes root, paranoia takes precedence over everything. Tarantino masterfully uses nonlinear narrative structure here. Time shifts forward and backward; the transitions between the past and the present moment create a pleasant dizziness in the viewer. This structure stops the film from being just a crime story; it turns it into a character study that questions who they are, why they can't trust each other, and how people unravel under pressure. With the mature and controlled acting of Harvey Keitel, the tense presence of Tim Roth and especially the hair-raising scene of Michael Madsen, this cast forms one of the most memorable ensembles in the history of cinema. The character that Steve Buscemi interpreted and brought to life goes beyond being just a name and becomes almost an iconic figure. Violence is not decorative here, it is functional. It bothers me, but that's the point. This is a form of discomfort designed to take the viewer out of their comfort zone, to make them not only watch but also feel what is happening on the screen. This film, which pushes the boundaries of independent cinema, transcends its period with its dialogues, aesthetics and bold narration; is an unmissable experience for anyone who loves the crime genre or wonders about the breaking points of cinema history.
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talisencrw
May 14, 2016
10/10
This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both in terms of entertaining violence and usage of music in the scoring of films. I greatly thank Harvey Keitel for taking a chance on Tarantino back then--It paid off in spades.

Wuchak
June 04, 2018
4/10
The cuss-oriented squabbles of lowlife crooks for 99 minutes (and no women) RELEASED IN 1992 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs” is a crime drama/thriller about a diamond heist gone disastrously wrong in Los Angeles wherein the surviving thugs bicker back-and-forth in a warehouse about which of their members is a police informant. The main thieves are played by Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn while Lawrence Tierney appears as the ...
old salt mastermind. This was Tarantino’s first feature film, costing only $1,200,000, and it has quirky glimmerings of future greatness, as seen in “Pulp Fiction” (1994), “Jackie Brown” (1997), “Kill Bill” (2003/2004), “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) and “Django Unchained” (2012), but “Reservoir” didn’t work for me. It’s hampered by a low-budget vibe, which I can handle, but not the uninteresting lowlife characters, their self-made conundrum, their interminably dull dialogue and the one-dimensional setting where about 80% of the story takes place in an old warehouse, not to mention no females in the main cast. Still, it’s interesting to observe Tarantino’s first serious stab at filmmaking and it has its moments of genuine entertainment. It’s a lesson on humble beginnings, which shows potential while not being up to snuff. THE FILM RUNS 1 hour, 39 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles & Burbank. GRADE: C-

CinemaSerf
January 04, 2024
6/10
Nope, I didn't get the memo... After a jewellery heist goes wrong and the escaping funeral-attired hoodlums kill a couple of cops and one gets gut-shot in a car-jacking, they return to their hideout where they turn on each other with expletive-ridden venom. What now ensues is a recreation of the planning and execution of their raid, their introductions to each other and that all lays the seeds for this over-rated drama of brutal mistrust and duplicity. Tim Roth probably stands out as "Mr. Orange...
" but the rest of the fairly well established cast offer us little by way of sophistication or subtlety as they try to decide which - if any of them - informed the police. It's violent but so what - it's not Scorsese, nor does the story really hold up after it becomes glaringly obvious what is actually going to happen at the end. Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut has shock value, certainly, but I'm afraid I found the whole thing really quite dull. Sorry - but there's more to good writing and characterisation that loads of effing, jeffing, charm-free thuggery and bullets. Not for me!
rsanek
April 23, 2024
4/10
I don't get it. Feels like nothing happens the whole film. Cool to see Buscemi in this though, I didn't realize he was in such an early one of Tarantino's films.
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Reservoir Dogs was released in 1992.
Reservoir Dogs has a runtime of 1 hr 39 min (99 minutes).
Reservoir Dogs belongs to the following genres: Crime, Thriller.
Reservoir Dogs has a rating of 8.1/10 from 15,518 votes on TMDB.
In the United States, Reservoir Dogs is available to watch on: Peacock Premium, YouTube TV, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store.